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The urban legend of the buried spitfire parts
Hi,
Over the years, I have come across various stories, tales told in pubs, etc etc about a quantity of "Spitfire parts" (usually RR Merlin engines) having been buried at some time during or shortly after WWII. The reasons for the burial vary, from the burial taking place during the Battle of Britain so that the parts could be used in the event of an invasion driving the RAF underground (!) to the burial taking place in the 50's purely because the parts were surplus to requirements but were considered too good to be "given away" to scrap merchants and therefore were squirrelled away until they became more valuable. Theories as to location seem to vary too, from a field next to the main RR factory in Derby to continents and countries across the globe. I would love to set up a web site to detail these stories and also to try and shed light on their veracity. So..... anyone out there know the real beef on what went on? Anyone out there heard similar stories in their local? Was anyone actively involved in the actual burial and can therefore give me the real location? Anyone know of any serious research already put into this subject on which we could colloborate? Any and all info please to the e-mail address that you can deduce from RRMerlinStories (at) hotmail dot com (don't reply to the address from which this appears to come - its not real!) thanks in advance /\/\ |
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